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Gambling and the Use of Credit: An Individual and Household Level Analysis
Brown, Sarah; Dickerson, Andy; McHardy, Jolian; Taylor, Karl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … household level. While both the incidence and amount of gambling vary according to household income, the positive association …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008562538
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Partisan Impacts on the Economy: Evidence from Prediction Markets and Close Elections
Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Political economists interested in discerning the effects of election outcomes on the economy have been hampered by the problem that economic outcomes also influence elections. We sidestep these problems by analyzing movements in economic indicators caused by clearly exogenous changes in...
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How Prediction Markets Can Save Event Studies
Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This review paper articulates the relationship between prediction market data and event studies, with a special focus on applications in political economy. Event studies have been used to address a variety of political economy questions – from the economic effects of party control of...
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Does the Home Advantage Depend on Crowd Support? Evidence from Same-Stadium Derbies
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We investigate to what extent crowd support contributes to the home advantage in soccer, disentangling this effect from other mechanisms such as players' familiarity with the stadium and travel fatigue. To evaluate the relevance of crowd support in determining home advantage we analyze...
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Too Busy for School? The Effect of Athletic Participation on Absenteeism
Cuffe, Harold E.; Waddell, Glen R.; Bignell, Wesley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
While existing research supports that participation in high-school athletics is associated with better education and labour-market outcomes, the mechanisms through which these benefits accrue are not well established. We use data from a large public-school district to retrieve an estimate of the...
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Savings and Prize-Linked Savings Accounts
Atalay, Kadir; Bakhtiar, Fayzan; Cheung, Stephen L.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Many households have insufficient savings to handle moderate and routine consumption shocks. Many of these financially fragile households also have the highest lottery expenditures as a proportion of income. This combination suggests that Prize-Linked Savings (PLS) accounts, that combine...
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Referee Bias
Dohmen, Thomas; Sauermann, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper surveys the empirical literature on the behavior of referees in professional football and other sports. Referees are typically appointed by a principal to be impartial, especially when unbiased referee judgment is vital for the accomplishment of the principal's objective. Answering...
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Game, Set, and Match: Do Women and Men Perform Differently in Competitive Situations?
Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper analyzes potential gender differences in competitive environments using a sample of over 100,000 professional tennis matches. We focus on two phenomena of the labor and sports economics literature: the hot-hand and clutch-player effects. First, we find strong evidence for the hot-hand...
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Mozart or Pelé? The Effects of Teenagers' Participation in Music and Sports
Cabane, Charlotte; Hille, Adrian; Lechner, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this paper analyses the effects of spending part of adolescents' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared to doing sports, particularly so for girls and children...
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Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Many tournaments are plagued by sabotage among competitors. Typically, sabotage is welfare-reducing, but from an individual's perspective an attractive alternative to exerting positive effort. Yet, given its illegal and often immoral nature, sabotage is typically hidden, making it difficult to...
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